boylike
Example Sentences
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Its lure is the image of girls kicking ass, being boylike.
From Time Magazine Archive
His scientific interest in his illness was enormous�even though, boylike, he had a personal pride in the misfortune that had suddenly made him special.
From Time Magazine Archive
By and by, on a gentle breeze springing up from the southward and westward, Master Bob, boylike, suggested their slipping the Zephyr’s moorings and going for a little sail out into the offing.
From Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel by Greene, John B.
While almost everything was novel and strange to them, they were most interested in the heavy dog-whips, and, boylike, must try their hands in wielding them.
From Winter Adventures of Three Boys by Laughlin, J. E.
Noel, boylike, unmindful of the justice of the little sutler's complaints, was greatly angered at the treachery of his comrade.
From The Young Sharpshooter at Antietam by Tomlinson, Everett T. (Everett Titsworth)
